1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
France, Spain
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Spanish
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Zer moduz?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
Arratsalde on
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Arratsalde on
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Maite zaitut
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Navarro-Lapurdian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
France, Soule, Spain
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.008,700.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Spain
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million7.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
basque
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Basque people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology